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Sometimes sweet, a little painful, and many times beautiful. That's really what a snapshot is. This one spans years of hatred which end up in love. This one is the story of Lily Evans and James Potter.

A dark boy watches a bright girl through the grass and wonders why she can't be with him.

How easy it is to lie, to misunderstand, and to separate ourselves from the people we love.

Lily is doing the nightly rounds. James and Sirius are executing a plan for a prank. What will they do when they meet? ~One shot about how Lily and James began~

A picture is worth a thousand words: a collection of photographs from Sirius' school years and the album in which he keeps them. (Written for the remixredux challenge, and based upon the story "Photograph" by mackittenx)

Lily Evans and Hestia Jones make a bet--about Severus Snape. Marauders school years.

James Potter has a hole in his sock, and he can't help wishing the girl sitting across from him were someone else.

James and Sirius discover the joys of Chinese take-away and those pesky fortune cookies. Set during MWPP era between sixth and seventh year. R/S implied, unrequited J/L.

I've decided at last to take control of my life and write a diary, which will tell the truth about Lily Evans.....

Sherlock!Sirius solves his first mystery.

SLASH! A little lyrical piece for Valentine's Day. Remus seeks help from Sirius in getting his valentine...Only Sirius doesn't realize exactly how much he's helping. RLSB

In a world different from the one we know, one where the pure reign and slavery is a fact of life. Is the will and strength of a handful of young witches and wizards enough to overcome a powerful and corrupt order? AU - a look into what may have happened if Dumbledore never confronted Grindelwald at all.

As a war among wizards gathers pace in the outside world, talented misfit Severus Snape struggles to make his way at Hogwarts. Determined to join the ranks of the great and the good, he forms an alliance with charismatic but ruthless Lucius Malfoy, whilst secretly remaining best friends with childhood friend Lily Evans – who stands against everything Lucius believes. How long can Severus keep the best of both worlds before the consequences of his divided loyalties catch up with him? [COMPLETE]

Hogwarts students need money too. And Hogsmeade *is* the cool place to work.

Remus is nineteen and finds it hard to get a job whilst business for Sirius and James is looking good. Of course, he is not jealous... But Remus sometimes wishes he hadn't been bitten. Life would've been so much easier and finding love would've been less complicated. Sirius just wishes he could tell Remus the truth. Peter's true colours are gradually showing through, but the others are unsuspecting. Rated for language. James/Lily and Remus/Sirius.

"I don't know how, but I had managed to grab hold of a lemon-meringue pie covered in strawberry pink frosting, for the Valentine theme. Once I realized how useful this was in the destruction of Potter, I did not give it another seconds thought; upon reaching him I took the pie and smashed it hard to his face." Does that make you want to read this story? Lily Evans has found her 'someone'. Three guesses who. Find out how James Potter drove Lily as mad as to start a food-fight and what other surprises await her at the hands of the ever-infuriating 'supreme git of the galaxy'.

When Lily Evans enters her Seventh Year at Hogwarts to find that she has to work alongside the boy who brings out the worst in her, all sorts of strange things start happening. More than this, she comes to discover that people aren’t always as they seem - there might just be more to them than meets the eye. Follow the ever-quirky Lily Evans through her eventful last year at Hogwarts.

"Wanna play some chess?" Remus finds out that Sirius has a little secret of his very own...Part 1 of the True Wolfsbane series.

Sirius Black starts to grow up, dyes his hair, and falls in love with a rock star. Unrequited Sirius Black/Stubby Boardman.

I, Sirius Black, would like to explain the event that happened in the summer between my fifth and sixth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Do not listen to Remus. He is lying. Lying!

Dear Mr. Diary, Forgive me, for I have sinned. Oh, you know my sins. I had temptations. So how do I thwart these temptations? I go gallivanting off on an adventure with James Potter in the middle of the night to a place where I'm not supposed to be. Oh, and it gets worse.

When the real world comes crashng on Remus, he looks around himself, and finds out he's not alone.

How did Snape come by that ugly nickname? A little theory.

After Sirius and James hear that Remus has been picked up by the Muggle police, Sirius finds out the reason why, which is music to his ears. Sirius/Remus.

Sirius Black knows only the house he's lived in all his life. Virtually unaware of the outside world, he just wants to feel loved. First in a series.

Why there are no excuses for how MWPP behaved during SWM

What does it take for James to get a date with Lily to Hogsmeade?

Remus spends a night looking through a photo album from his school days. It brings back lots of memories, both good and bad, and causes a lot of life reflection. Sort of implied Sirius/Remus where nothing happens, Lily/James, Peter/OC, Sirius/many OC's.

“Well, she thought, if he reckoned she’d agree to snog him rather than die of starvation, then he had another think coming.”``An innocent walk to the common room is the trigger for a reassessment of feelings, as Lily Evans begins to realise that there is more to her maddening suitor Potter than meets the eye. Snowfall, Nargles, cameos by pretty Ravenclaws, and tales of sheep abound in this one-shot story.

Thirteen-year-old Remus discovers that certain elements of his education have been sorely lacking.

A glitterboy and his "ordinary" best friend love each other, but they refuse to deal with their feelings.

James Potter and Lily Evans: we know how it ended for them, but how did it begin? (A 'Stag Night' Cookie)

Written for the Portkey 7 'fore 7 challenge, theme #1. James finds a certain muggle... innovation lying around the common room and has difficulty identifying it. Lucky for him, everyone seems willing to help.

Earlier that evening, Remus kissed Sirius on a drunken dare. And it didn't mean anything at all. Nope. Nothing at all.

Read about Snape's time at Hogwarts. School influences everybody to becoming different people so where was the final straw that drove Snape into the arms of Voldemort. Was it pure evilness? Was it his parents? Or did it have something to do with a certain pretty red-haired witch?

"Every woman, whether born a Black or simply marrying into the family (sometimes both), has worn them on her wedding day."

The Headmaster of Durmstrang Institute dies under suspicious circumstances, and a foreigner named Karkaroff takes over the school. A young woman is sent by the Russian Ministry to investigate, posing as an apprentice to the Dark Arts teacher. Against her stand a web of secrets old and new, the rebirth of Necromancy and a murderer who will stop at nothing to reach his goal ...

An interpretation of Lily and James Potter's lives, from their first bits of magic to their last.

Teenagers often don't tell anyone around them what is going on in their crazy minds, but they often write them down on paper to express what is wrong with them. Dumbledore has an idea to fix the problem. Why not send the entries to each other? You will see what happens in this story of James and Lily.

'I don't care what you say, Moony, I think you look wonderful in pink.' MWPP time period.

He was the sly, rambunctious troublemaker. She was the smart, fiery redhead. He loved her; she denied loving him. James Potter just can't seem to say the right thing. Lily Evans can't keep her mouth shut. The first war is raging and neither of them know just how much it'll affect their lives. They were just fifteen-year-olds trying to survive Hogwarts. When dark times lie ahead, they are thrown off course and find themselves places they never would have imagined.

When Remus Lupin bets Sirius Black that he can have fun with girls without snogging them, Sirius is sceptical. Who'll win the bet?

"You call everyone of my birth Mudblood, Severus, why should I be any different?" Snapshots of a different world: one slip of the tongue saved them, whereas another almost destroyed them.

James Potter would give up on Lily Evans one of these days. No, really, he would.

Lily is certain her boyfriend is being hurt by the rest of the Marauders.

Lily writes a letter. Tears, regrets, and wishes. Seventh year, JP/LE, one-shot.

Alchemy is not officially taught at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. But when the two brightest potions students in a generation, Severus Snape and Lily Evans, each take up the subject out of curiosity, they find themselves at the center of events set in motion by a certain Dark Lord...one that died nearly three hundred years before they were born.

Follow James Potter through his years at Hogwarts, the friends, the girls, the laughter and the heartache. But as a first year, mostly just the laughter. Remus Lupin in a dress? It just doesn't get any better.

Afterwards, Sirius could never forgive himself for not noticing sooner that he was being distracted...

James and Lily are trapped in the room of requirement. Little does poor Lily Evans know that everything is going according to James’ plan. What sort of mischief will they get into?

Lucius Malfoy is frustrated: from among these girls he's meant to choose his future wife?

What happens when you mix sickness, love, marriage, parents, James, and any thing disturbing? You get Lily's life. This is a story, that Lily wrote in her diary during her seventh year.

Sixth-year James Potter is still in hot pursuit of Lily Evans, and despite her constant rejections, he just can't seem to leave her alone. His efforts to pretend her dislike doesn't matter only seems to make things worse. James isn't willing to give up his pride for anything though...is he?

At a wild Quidditch party, Lily unwinds with Remus at her side, having bad consequences for not only the two, but James' heart. Rated PG-13 for sexual references.

When Severus accepts Lily's invitation to experience a taste of her life before Hogwarts, he expects nothing more than a pleasant evening away from his house. What he gets is more than he had ever dared to dream for.

We all know the Marauders. Remus, Peter, Sirius, and James. What we don't know is how they became Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs. Follow four boys through their first year at Hogwarts where we will see the foundation set for that infamous group of tricksters, as well as a few friends...

“You… did all of that for me? Why? Why would you do that for someone as… dangerous… someone as… as… as beastly, as cursed, as... as different… as me?” His voice cracks, and tears rise in his eyes; he pulls himself free of Sirius’ grasp to get up from the chair and walk away from the fire. He doesn’t want him to know how much this means, how much more than it would mean for any other boy; he doesn’t want to let Sirius see the hope in his eyes, because he’s afraid that Sirius won’t understand.

Remus is going through hard times, and Sirius provides a warm and sturdy shoulder. A run of the emotional gauntlet shows their friendship to reach deeper than previously thought.

Lily Evans never quite fit in. She receives a letter from a school for witchcraft and wizardry, and begins to understand why. But soon, she comes to realize it is much more than that. There is something special about her one could only see in her eyes.

Harry gets given a shoebox of Lily's junk. To him half of it should go straight in the bin because it means nothing to him, but had it meant anything to Lily? And how does this tie in with the prophecy? Mostly Marauders' Era.

"Well... have a good summer, Evans." Looking dejected, James reluctantly turns away and disappears into his compartment. Lily finds her feet automatically carrying her back to hers, even though her insides scream at her to go back and say goodbye properly.

There has always been one man who could crack Snape - one man who was always the decisive factor in his life.

Sirius runs away from home after a last conversation with his younger brother.

I always knew what you were, Severus. It wasn't that one word that made me realize. I always knew. You think that that was the moment you lost me. You have no idea. That was the moment I almost joined you, the moment you almost got everything you wanted from me but I couldn't give. Then you saved me, saved me from your fate.

Hogwarts, 1978. A young Remus Lupin prepares for his final N.E.W.T... on the night of a full moon. A tale of friendship, self-loathing, and caffeine (all in great amounts). MWPP one-shot.

Sirius is writing an essay, only it's not turning out quite the way he wanted it to... Very short fic that I wrote while I had writer's block working on a longer one.

When James gets his hands on a rather colorful romance novel, owned by a certain Miss Lily Evans, can he survive the ensuing storm and get his Lily too?

Remus Lupin is a bad Catholic. But that doesn't mean he's bad. Post-Prank SLASH RLSB

Lily is horrified when she discovers who the Head Boy is, but even more so when she sees into the future and discovers the state of her romantic life, recognizing a few changes in James Potter in the process. One-shot.

It's the best feeling in the world, our palms sweaty, your breathing erratic, but then you pick up that black and white electric guitar and nothing else seems to matter.

Reg says diaries are for girls, but he doesn't know what he's talking about. First of all, girls can't write, everybody knows that (except Regulus, but what does he know?), and second, this isn't a diary. It's a journal. That's something totally different. A journal of my super-cool life--This is the very first sentence Sirius Black writes in his Diary/journal in his first year at Hogwarts. Other years will follow.

L/J One-shot. She could hardly look at Harry anymore. His little wisps of black hair, now fuller and messier than when he was a newborn, reminded Lily too much of James. Where was James?

Seventh-year Bellatrix Black won't let anyone stand in her way - especially not arrogant, presumptuous and not-in-the-least-bit-attractive Slytherin prefect Lucius Malfoy.

My version of how Lily and James finally got together.

James Potter is waiting for the Hogwarts Express to take him to Hogwarts for his first year of school. He's got no friends, a large trunk, and a kitten. And a little bit of advice from his mother.

Sherlock!Sirius strikes again. Sequel to "The Case of the Misplaced Satisfaction."

All she wants is to be left alone, just for a minute, just long enough to pretend that the world doesn't exist.

The Marauders used to visit the Tonks household often, to see Andromeda and Ted and play with little Nymphadora. Fourteen years later, one particular memory of one of these visits comes up. Slight RLNT.

A day during the James's, Remus's, and Sirius's life at Hogwarts. Full of fighting, falling, and raging hormones.

The Marauders attend a fancy dress/costume party at the end of their seventh year. Our intrepid heroes wear feather boas and eyeliner, and do quite a bit of snogging. All in all, it makes for much fun.

Oh... just one of the many antics of James Potter to win Lily over... who answers, "Aren’t you supposed to be in detention? Clearing up blocked toilets or something."

During the war, shadows have fallen over Sirius' and Remus' relationship. Until one day Sirius decides that everything needs to be brought out into the open.

Lily knows that she's falling for James. She thinks back, coming to terms with how such an unlikely thing happened.

James is getting married, but it's not to Lily. Back in their seventh year when he asked her to marry him, Lily was just a young girl, but now she's grown up... Ships: J/OC, J/L

It's election time again, and Remus Lupin has a reputation for being a tough voter to win over. Why is this, and will anyone ever succeed? Inspired by UK election canvassing, of all things.

They're normal kids, and they make mistakes just like we do. And just like us, they're not perfect. But we all crave a happy ending. Getting it is a lot harder than everyone imagines...

As the Marauders enter their last year at Hogwarts, James sets out to do one thing: to get Lily Evans, the girl of his dreams. Lily is just trying to stay away from him. Sirius and Remus are coming up with a plan. What happens when Lily and James become Heads?

The summer after Sirius leaves home, he and James discuss their hopes, plans, and Sirius's relationship with Remus.

Hello! Welcome to my little one-shot song fic. Remus Lupin/Sirius Black. Sirius is bringing sexy back with a record player and a song.

Petunia grudgingly picks Lily up from King's Cross Station for Christmas holidays and meets Messrs MWPP.

"Sirius, I want you to be Harry's godfather." [SiriusLily, LilyJames, Major Angst]

Remus visits Sirius, who is sick with dragon pox, in St. Mungo's. Unfortunately, Sirius's mother decides to visit as well. Sirius/Remus.

“Yes. You’re right, James. I do love you. A lot. I’m absolutely positively madly in love with you.” MWPP time period.

Join four friends who later become known as the Marauders for their eventful fifth year at Hogwarts. Love and loss await them, among other things. Sirius learns that there's more to family than just blood. His friends are what truly matter, for they are the ones who grow with him from being friends to being brothers.

All Severus wants is to spend a beautiful spring afternoon studying and maybe grab the attention of the young Ravenclaw he's fancied since first year. What happens when James Potter and Sirius Black pull the prank that officially becomes 'one too many'?

Sirius runs away from home.

Ever wondered what happened between Snape and Lily? Curious about the depth and secrecy behind their tender friendship? What separated them? What held them together? What begame of their mysterious bond? This novella tells their story through their seven years at Hogwarts together, most taking place during their last four years. Now you can finally hear the answers to each and every question you once had regarding the pair.

Shortly after Hogwarts, Sirius and Remus are sharing a flat together. One day, however, a very strange tift begins.

Remus' hateful, malevolent mother finds letters from Sirius. She confronts him about his romantic relationship and he finally stands up to her. Remus finally confronts the evil that has strangled him since he was bitten as a child. Remus finally escapes what's been holding him back all these years. RL/SB Slash.

Is a certain redhead going nuts? James sends Lily a diary for her birthday. The diary documents how Lily's feelings towards James change from hate, to confusion, to love. Friendship, secrets, feelings and pranks abound!